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leof things —after attacking the detartures from the old and attacking the scale of the Right Hon. Gentleman -ea r him to f orward and lay the burden of all those I come re 7ts on the 13i11 we propose.—(Cheers.) Now, Sir, with r er ence to the application of the net income arising under the Ith e Bi ll , which in the present measure. It is we propose as follows :- 6 : To 675 b ene fi ces o f t h e fi rst c l ass, conta i n i ng more t h an and less than 500 Protestants, at 2001. per benefice, rent- Cu a. 'go and 30 acres of glebe valued at 303. per acre -165,3751. " Ta 2ll benefices of the second class, containing more „ th an 500, an d l ess than 1,000 P rotestants, at 300 1 . per bene zee, rent-charge and 30 acres of glebe valued as before -72,7951. 1,"00To 190 benefices of the third class, containing more than ~e n, 3 and l ess th an 3,000 P ro t es t an t s , a t 4001. per benefice, "'charge and 30 acres of glebe valued as before-84,5501. ‘` To 61 benefices of the fourth class, containing upwards of 3,00 0 Protestants, at 500/. per benefice, rent-charge and 30 acres of glebe valued as before-27,795/. " To 123 benefices of the fifth class, containing less than so Protestants, at 1001. per benefice, rent charge and 30 acres 4 4 glebe valued as before-17,8351." It appears, as my Noble Friend ha very truly said, that the Whole scale furnishes about 1901. for c e ach benefice ; but if I Were to take only a part of these, if I were to omit benefices containing more than 50 and less than 500, and benefices nntaining less than 50, then the whole amount being 185,000/, would give for each benefice an average of about 41 1/. a year.----(Hear, hear.) What say the Church Commis sioners in their second report, with reference to the present state of the Church of England ? It appears from their report, that "there are 3,528 benefices under 1501. per annum ; of that number, thirteen contain each a population of Thor° than 10,000, fifty-one a population of from 5,000 to 1 0,000 ; two hundred and fifty-one a population of between 2 ,000 and 5,000; and eleven hundred and twenty-five have each a population of between 500 and 2,000." According to Ibis statement there are 1,440 benefices in this country, each Containing above 500 persons, all under 150/. per Minim, and the average of which we may suppose to be from 1001. to 1201. per annum.—( Cheers.) Therefore we have here in England, 1 ,440 benefices, each containing more than 500 people, at this average of 1201. a year—say it yields an average of 1201. a ear ; and we propose that in Ireland, in all benefices contain ing more than 500 persons, there shall he one average of 411/. a - year.—(Loud cheers.) Now, I ask my Noble Friend, if he so shocked at the penury in which we leave the Irish Church, what does he consider the state of the English Church under such circumstances as these 2—(Cheers.) Be it recollected too, that the state of the English Church is the state of a National Church, to which the people of this coun try belong; that when we talk of the poverty of clergymen of this Church, we talk of the poverty of men who are doing their duty to their flocks in both town parishes and country parishes--whose offices are received with thankfulness, re spect, and veneration ; and that when we speak of the average of 4001. a-year which is given to the Irish clergyman, it is given in parishes where there are more than 500 mem bers of the Established Church, certainly, but where there are, perhaps, 1,000, 2,000, or 3,000 person; of a different per suasion, to whom that religious consolation cannot be ex tended, and by whom it would be refused if it were proffered. This was the point upon which my Noble Friend opposite and I entertain a difference which must always be kept in view. This Church of Ireland you must endeavour to support ; you %lust endeavour to make it agree, as well as you can, with the circumstances of the country in which it is placed ; but, after all, it is not the Church to which the great majority of the People belong.--4 Loud cheers.) My Noble Friend com plains of the hardship and injustice of leaving some of these Clergymen starving, as he calls it, on 1001. a-year. Why, Sir, I find that in the 7th and Bth of King George the Fourth, in the orthodox period of 1827, before the Roman Catholics were admitted into this House, a provision was inserted in an Act of Parliament that— _ _ " When any parish or parishes appropriate, belong to, and are annexed to any archbishopric or bishopric in Ireland, it shall and may be lawful for any archbishop, with the consent of the dean and chapter of the diocese, and when there is not any dean and chapter, then with the censent of the major part of the beneficed clergy of the diocese, and also of the archbishop and patron of such parish, under their hands and seals, to unite two or more of such appropriate parish or pa rishes into one perpetual cure, and to unite one or more of such approprirte parish or parishes to any one benefice or bene fices contiguous thereto, provided the certain value of each such respective unions do net exceed 1001. by the year." If any reproach can justly be brought against us, it is one which applies equally against those who framed this Act, and against those who passed it, and thought that in so doing, they were conferring a benefit upon the Church of Ireland— ( Hear, hear, hear.) Undoubtedly in benefices in Ireland-- there were no great number of them--which contain less than fifty Protestants, the income of 100/. a year is a small one ; but it is not less, it is even larger, than the income which many clergymen and curates of the Church of England enjoy. It is an income one-fourth larger, besides the glebe, than we were told last year was given to the curates of two parishes which produced 1,2001. or 1,500/. a year to the rector.—( Loud cheering.) So when my Noble Friend the Secretary for Ire land (Lord Morpeth) makes this proposition, he makes a pro- Position, the tendency of which is not to diminish the Church, but to apportion the income of its ministers to the amount of sitxtv they arc called upon to perform. While he increases— nd increases in several places to a very large extent—the in comes to be paid to those ministers who have heavy duties to Perform, he diminishes the incomes of benefices wherein the °limber of Protestants of the Established Church is very li alited.—(Hear, hear.) My Noble Friend opposite (Lord Stanley) says that there ought to be some limit, according to the extent of the parish. It is a great hardship undoubtedly and a very severe labour, for a clergyman to have to go over a great eetent of country, in the discharge of his spiritual duties ; and this is one of the points which I think might well come lsnder the consideration of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. At the same time I should be sorry that a rule should be laid down, and above all in an Act of Parliament, that the extent of parishes might be enlarged to any degree. By adopting such a principle we might fall into the error which those have fallen into who have long opposed the Bill before the House an the subject, and the principle of it, that we should consider the extent of Ireland and not the number of Protestants— that we should provide for the cure of acres and not for the cure of souls.—(Cheers and laughter.) His Noble Friend 'yea% at some length into an explanation of the details of his own Bill, and he also found fault with the Commissioners. — (Hear, hear, from Lord Stanley.) At any rate, if he did not rect.) , censure, he did, by implication, state that some blame I r 4 s„.. attachable to the Commissioners acting under the Church - ifemporalities Bill. His Noble Friend read a statement from *emir report, in which they stated that they thought that it 'was expedient to spend 75,000!. a year in the repair of churches; but he added that, in particular instances, they had sent down 100/. for the repair of churches which did not require more than Si. to be laid out upon them, and this had occurred it, parishes where there were Protestant gentlemen Who were ready to contribute the Si. The Noble Lord passed over the defects of the Act which he wished to introduce, and bent to the clauses of the Bill before the House, which gave Power to the Secretary of State to reduce the income or reve- Imo of the Clergy to the minimum, and he assumed that this Would be acted upon in every MC ; and he added, that thus 1 ,t.1 impoverishing the Clergy the Government would be ena bled to raise a large surplus to devote to other purposes. I think th a t thi s was carr yi ng th e argumen t t o the extreme, and 1 ° an unfair length, for it is always to be assumed that the Government of the day, in which there is a dis cretionary power, will carry a Bill into effect according to the spirit of it, and according to the sense in which it re ceived the sanction of Parliament, and will not strive to vio late ethe principle of the Bill. If the Act stated that from 00/. to 300/. a year was to be given to a Clergyman, accord ing to circumstances—if they always gave 2001., whatever /night be the circumstances of the case, and never 3001.—they Would sot act fairly, or in conformity with the meaning or spirit of the bill. I think that Parliament would feel that any Se c, eetaey of State, or any Minister of the Crown, would neglect big duty if the Bill should be carried into operation in this lw aY•—( Hear, hear.) But if any other persons should be pro- Posed to carry the Bill into effect than the ecclesiastical Com inissionera of the Protestant Church, I should be happy to ret to the arrangement, provided that it could be shown ``) bc'. more satisfactory, for I do not mean to say that these are- the only persons who can co so. I repeat, if there arc other persons who in the opinion of Parliament are better . al dapted to carry out the plan, I am quite ready to assent . a change in this part of the measure. It was always ' a id in th e cou rse of the debate on this subject last y ear, !oat there would be no surplus if the Bill was passed—that, a k Tact, a calculation was made of a surplus which would not 4 1 3 1lear, and which would altogether vanish in operation, a nd that it was only an imaginary surplus on paper. I eon .eis that my Noble Friend's proposition was more acceptable 14 appearance than the assertion so const antl y made last year, because my Noble Friend says that there will be too lar g e , ;2 44 rplus, and indeed so large that we shall not know how amply; it—that more will be received than was necessary Tr the payment ofa-year for educion. At any we shall carry into effect the object intended of apply- Ati lt any surplus that may arise to the purpose of ge neral edu - ~ mien ; and my Noble Friend need not be under any alarm 4 :1 4 to too much accruing for this purpose for a consid erable 44 e ; for in the first place, the fifty thousand pounds a - yea r, 4 given from the Consolidated Fund for the purpose of gc 17d education must be repaid. I feel perfectly well assure d *hat it will be many years before the fifty thousand pounds a ?:f ear thu s a d vance d will be repaid by the Bill.—( Hear, hear, totn Sir Robert Peel.) The Right Hon. Baronet is, per satisfied that this is the case. It must be recollected, a t,any surplus of money that may accumulate in the bands of t i ne Commissioners, may be devoted for the compensation of i,tnose who give up their advowsons, to allow them to fall 0 th e bands of the Commissioners, that they may come within the operation of the Bill. Therefore the Right Hon. t,n tleman will not agree with the Noble Lord , that any ttrplus would arise that would be too large for the pro elpose ; u pur b t, on the contrary, that it would be a long nie , oefore it w o uld amount to a large sum. At any rate, I e ei st say that this will be the case, before the sum will be suf ;ntlY great to be devoted to other purpoees than the edu eait I°ll of the people. Although, therefore, a sum may arise, , la, be a very long time before there will be a sufficiently ge surplus to render it necessary that the attention of Par i„arlillent should be drawn to the subject.—( Hear.) Friend called My Noble With my attention to one point connected, as he said, a surplus—namely, respecting glebe lands. He asked i e v _ w hether this surplus was to be applied in such a way as to glebe lands to the Roman Catholics •? He asked me for I then and distinct answer to the qucstion.—( flux, L,;,..r.) t cn answer directly and distinctly—No.—( Cheers.) His aleste , of th _ s Government have no intention to apply any port ion Cl e surplus from glebe lands for the Roman Catholic gY. - -( Hear, hear.) I state now, as I did on a former occasion, that we intend to devote any surplus that may arise to the same purposes as we proposed to du last year—namely, to devote what was requisite for the Protestant Ministers of the Established Church, and to devote any surplus that might then arise from the revenues of the Church to the general education of the people, without any distinction as to religion or creed —(Cheers ) I will not trouble the House with giving any explanations of the details of this Bill; because my Noble Friend (Lord Merpeth) who pro posed the Bill, and to whom is due the merit of framing the Bill, on what I consider to be just principles, will be prepared to do so ; and also to show that he has allowed a sufficiency for the Clergy, and to explain the grounds on which he framed the scale of incomes. I confess that if I had had to frame the outline of the Bill, I am not quite sure that I should have allotted a scale to the same amount ; but this is a subject on which my Noble Friend will be prepared to answer any objections. In consequence of the objections made last year, we have felt disposed to yield in some degree, upon one point. We now propose to keep up the number of benefices, and to afford a sufficiency for the maintenance of each clergyman, requisite for the due perform ance of divine worship. I cannot go further ; but the plan we now propose to act upon is similar in principle to that of the former measure ; and it is the principle on which the Go vernment still propose to act. Do Honourable Gentlemen forget the relative proportions in some parts of Ireland, be tween the members of the Established Church and of other religious communities ? 'Fake two of the provinces of Ireland —the provinces of Tuam and Cashel. In Tuam, there are 44,599 members of the Established Church, and 1,188,568 Catholics. In Cashel there are 111,813 members of the Es tablished Church, and 2,220,340 Roman Catholics—making in the two provinces, 156,412 members of the Establishment, and 3,408,908 Catholics.—(Hear, hear.) The principle on which my Noble Friend's (Lord Stanley's) measure proposes to go is, that there should be due and adequate provision made for the income of the Clergy who attend to the spiritual interests of the 156,412 members of the Church ; but that we should neglect altogether' the 3,408,908 Catholics. — (Cheers.) Upon this principle we entirely differ.—( Hear, hear.) We differ entirely as regards this Bill, and as re gards every other measure respecting Ireland. I and my col leagues are of opinion that the Government of Ireland, in consequence of the mode in which it has acted, has at all times, and down to almost the latest period, been productive of great evil, by encouraging a strong party spirit, and has much neglected the interests of the great body of the people.— ( Cheers.) I could give some instances in proof of this of a dif ferent kind, and on different aubjects from the present measure, and I think that this is the great point of difference between us and our opponents.—( Hear.) There would be no difficulty in pointing out how that difference of principle has operated, and showing, by illustration and example, how the Government has been carried on. One instance which recently came under my attention pointedly shows it. It was one which was men tioned in this House on a former occasion, and that in a most rambling manner, and in a way which did not make that impression on the House which I think that it should have made. My Right Hon. Friend the Attorney-General for Ireland, in taking a view of the state of that country in his official capacity, found that it was not the practice to prose cute officially at the Quarter Sessions those persons who had been guilty of assaults, and who engaged in quarrels which often led to bloodshed. He was of opinion that leaving such crimes unpunished addicted the peasantry to lawless outrages, and contributed to excite in them a disregard of the law. His Right Hon. Friend directed that not only the Crown solicitor should attend at the different assizes, but that soli. citors should be appointed to attend and prosecute these assaults at the various quarter sessions in Ireland. A question on this subject was raised in the House only a few weeks ago. It was asked whether many of the solicitors appointed to carry on these prosecutions were not Roman Catholics ?—( Cheers.) The object was to put down outrages and prevent crime, and for this purpose to use the efforts and skill of the different so licitors in the various towns in Ireland. The question was not raised as to whether this proceeding was desirable—as to whe ther the purse and revenues of the Crown should be used for the purpose of preventing crime, but as to whether the soli citors employed to carry on these prosecutions were not Ro man Catholics.—(Cheers.) I can give another instance of the same kind with resyect to the administration of justice in Ireland, and with reference to which my Right Honourable Friend has succeeded in making an alteration.—( Cheers.) Is has been the practice—although an alteration has been made by the recent jury law for Ireland—for the Crown to challenge fifty or more persons called as jurors in a common case, and where there was nothing of a serious nature, and this merely on some political or religious suspicion. The con sequence of this practice was, that there arose a suspicion on the part of the people against the trial by jury, and it was be lieved that in these cases the source of justice was tainted and was not impartial. My Right Hon. Friend directed that the practice should cease, and that all persons called upon juries should serve.—( Hear, hear.) I have received a number of letters from impartial persons in Ireland, who inform me that this change had - already had a visible and obviously beneficial effect 011 the minds of the people. They now felt a security in the administration of justice, and they said that they should have a fair trial when called up.—( Hear, hear.) The trials for offences which grew out of popular differences were deeply regarded by the people, and they now said when a man was prosecuted that at any rate he would have a fair trial, and justice would be dine. —( Hear, hear.) It was only by means such as these; and by attending to the wants and wishes of the people of Ireland, that you will get them to cease to resort to crime on any occasion, and to support the law and the institu tions of the country, and to give to the Government and Parlia ment that confidence without which your armies are useless for the preservation of tranquillity.—( Cheers.) But I can not avoid mentioning another subject which, indeed, is different from the present matter of debate, but which I shall soon have an opportunity to bring under the consideration of the House. I mean the Bill which was proposed to the House on the sub ject of Municipal Corporations in Ireland. —( Hear.) I main tain that this is one instance of a measure where we thought Ireland should be governed on the same principles which we wish to apply in this Bill—and let no man say this does not belong to the subject before the House—and which was op posed on similar grounds to those which were urged against this measure and this occurred because the principles of both parties were essentially different as to the the mode of governing Ireland.—( Hear, hear, hear.) We hold that the Roman Catholics of Ireland arc to be considered on an equal account with their Protestant fellow-subjects, and that as they freely wish to join with us in loyalty to the throne and attachment to the institutions of the country, that they should be dealt with in a like manner, and on equal rights ; but they have been treated in a way that has led them to adopt the opi nion that as they are aliens to our Church—that as they differ from us in religion, and have, therefore, had civil rights withheld from them, that the Church is that of their tyrants and oppressors.—( Hear, hear.) I contend that with respect to the general subject, the party opposed to us have acted on essentially different principles from ourselves. I have now an opportunity, which I have not had before, of alluding to the Irish Municipal Bill. Looking, then, to the amended Bill which has been sent to us from the other House on the subject of Corporations in Ireland, I cannot help re marking, that I observe the same principle as that on which the Noble Lord ( Lord Stanley) has founded his Bill, namely, the principle of contempt and degradation towards the Roman Catholics—(Cheers) —running through the whole of the amendments.—( Loud cheers.) I confess that when the Right lion. Gentleman proposed the instruction to the Committee, I had some difficulty on this point. I was anxious to know, sup posing the amendment to be carried, what would be the pro visions that would be proposed, and seeing my Noble Friend opposite support it, I wondered in what way they would agree that the new Bill should be framed.—(llear, hear.) In Eng lish politics the principles of the Right Hon. Gentleman and my Noble Friend have hitherto been entirely different.— ( Cheers.) I now find this Bill not a Bill which is founded on Whig principles—( Cheers)—not founded, I repeat, on Whig principles of liberty--( Renewed cheers)—not founded on Tory principles of respect for ancient establishments—( Loud cheers) but a mixture of some new principles which have been adopted with some which were acted upon in the most sanguinary part of the French revolution, and in the worst period of the military empire of that country.—( Loud cheers.) I say that I consider the principle of this Bill and that of the amend ment of any Noble Friend similar.—( Hear, hear, hear.) .felt hauled to consider the subject with reference to the whole system of Government hitherto pursued in Ire land, and that this point should not be departed from, the system pursued should be in accordance with the wisdom and sense of the country, and directed by that reason which, as my Noble Friend observed, should be the guide of the course of Government. If the House is of opinion that we must consider the wants end wishes and interests of the Ro man Catholic subjects of his Majesty, then it will be right and consistent to agree to let the Bill, prepared by my Noble Friend (Lord Morpeth) near rue, be proceeded with ; however, I was of opinion that this important point should be altogether omitted from our consideration, that I would admit that the plan of the Noble Lord (Stanley) opposite was a plan which was well worthy of consideration--( Hear, hear)—l contend that the course pursued by Honourable Gentlemen opposite involves this consequence—that after the House of Commons had decided on the principle on which Ireland shall be governed for the future, that if we should rescind one promise, and make the cup we had held out to them as much more bitter as we could, and told them that it - should no longe r be suffered to approach their lips, and that we would persist in a course which was degrading to them, and would sacrifice the principle, and pollute the source of justice as regarded them, we should have to contend with much opposition and with many obstacles from the feelings which would be manifested by the people of Ireland ; and I think, likewise, that we should have to contend with the reason and opinion of the people of England— (Cheers) —who row are turning their attention to Irish sub jects, which for a long time did not attract sufficient considera tion in this country, and which, when they do, I feel convinced that the English people will do as they have always done, namely, do as they would be done by, and on these subjects treat their Irish fellow-Subjects with regard and affection, and lend them their support, and thus lead to a real'and complete union of the two countries.—( Loud and continued cheers.) Dr. L E FRO Y said that there was nothing whatever in the Noble Lord's speech that couldibc recognised as an answer to the arguments put forward by the Noble Lord the Member 'for North Lancashire. The Noble Lord the Secretary for Ire land talked of a surplus which could by no means be proved to exist; and the real question was whether they should leave entertaining that visionary notion, and at once proceed to the adjustm en t of the tithe question, and the better regulation of the revenue of the Church of Ireland.—(Hear.) But the supporters of the measure rather preferred to insist on the iS a surplus, and be could show such surrlus could not by possibility exist. (The Hon. and Learned Member then entered into a calculation for the purpose of showing,that not only could no surplus exist, but that, according to the principle laid down by Lord Morpeth, viz., that every parish THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY. JUNE 2, 1836. should have a benefice, and every benefice a resident clergy man, the present revenues of the Church of Leland would he insufficient for the due maintenance of the establishment.) He could not conceive how the Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) and the , Hon. Member for St. Alben's could reconcile the state ments they had respectively made as to the amount of the sur plus. The Hon. Member had on a former occasion stated it at one million, but the Noble Lord now estimated it at 00,000/. only. He appealed to the Noble Lord opposite, as one who regarded the Established Church, who was anxious to legislate fairly and honestly on the subject, to give up the pursuit of a phantom that hail no existence Unreality, and to meet in an amicable spirit those on that side of the House who wished to settle the whole question, a question which had for so long a time agitated and distracted Ireland, and with out the settlement of which that country never could be ex pected to enjoy either peace or rest.—( A cheer from an Hon. Member on the Ministerial side of the House.) He under stood that cheer, and was aware that no settlement of the question would be satisfactory to the Hon. Member from whom it proceeded, unless it went to the total destruction of the Established Church in Ireland.—(Cries of " No, no," from the Ministerial benches, succeeded by cheers from the Opposition benches.) Mr. E. L. BUL WE R was the party who had cheered ; and Ile wished to know if the Hon. and Learned Gentleman alluded to him ?—( Cries of " Order I") Dr. LE FRO Y considered that he was quite in order. An Hon. Member had cheered, and he had put his interpretation on that cheer. He might have been mistaken. and was open to conviction ; but still he had clear right to make the obser vation which the cheer had elicited from him.—( hear, hear.) Should a surplus arise hereafter, nothing could prevent their bringing, in a Bill for the appropriation of that surplus ; but, as none now existed, would it not be better to leave the mat ter to futurity, and content themselves now with disposing of the subjects before them for consideration, namely, the set tlement of the tithe question and that relating to Church pro perty ?—( Hear, hear.) Mr. F. BUXTON, when he saw the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) opposite rise, hoped he was coming forward as a peace-maker ; but he was grievously disappointed, although the Noble Lord told them that the difference between those on his side of the House and those on that was very slight —that it proceeded from feelings of false pride and shame ; but he at the same - - time said that nine out of ten of those who supported the Bill of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ire laecl were the enemies of the Established Church. If that were the case, the difference could not be so slight as the Noble Lord would have them suppose ; but whether he (Mr. Buxton) were to be, numbered as one of the unwise and indiscreet friends of the Church, or of its malignant and destructive enemies, all he could say was, that the, Bill of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Ireland should have whatever support he could give it. —( Hear, hear, hear.) The Noble Lord opposite had thought fit to indulge in strong in vectives—to give himself full license of speech—and, there fore, he (Mr. F. Buxton) conceived it only right to advert from such gross—he must designate it—caricature to the pro visions of the Bill, in order to ascertain whether the Noble Lord was justified or not in the course which he had taken. Now, it was asserted by those who objected to it that it was not calculated to promote the Protestant religion ; but what was the first feature which it displayed ? Why, the settlement of the long and bitterly litigated question of tithes on a satis factory basis, by relieving the impoverished peasant from the payment, and making the tithes a charge on the first estate of inheritance in the land.—( Hear, hear.) This did not look like a design to destroy the Church and spoliate its property. The second feature of the measure was equally satisfactory to him, because it went to effect a just proportion between the duties to be performed and the revenue to be received. Well, what was the third feature which this measure presented ? Why, that the remuneration of the Clergy should be confined within certain given limits. This was also a highly impor tant arrangement, and one that should be adopted in Eng land as well as in Ireland, in order to prevent that of which the Noble Lord complained—the excesses of a luxurious surplus and sordid property.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now, was it likely that if his Majesty's Ministers were wicked enough to meditate the overthrow of the Church they would begin with enacting three capital provisions of this sort, every one of which, so far from injuring the Church, were calcu lated only to confirm and substantiate it ?—( Hear, hear.) Ile next came to the subject of education, and he must complain that this part of the question had not been fairly dealt with by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had last addressed the House. By this Bill not a shilling was to be alienated from the Church Establishment until every parish in Ireland had its pastor and its place of worship. Lord STANLEY—Hots does that appear? Mr. F. BUXTON—The principle which he bad stated was apparent in the Ist clause, the preamble, and the lilst clause: The object of the measure was to apply the property of the Church more in accordance with the design with which that property had been originally given; and such a course would, in his judgment, conduce to the advantage rather than to the detriment of the Protestant religion.—( Hear.) It had been made a charge against the Roman Catholics that they withheld the Scriptures from the people. That he, for one, considered as the great bane of the Roman Catholic religion, as he thought the Bible should be read by every one, whether Catholic or Protestant; but what was the system of education which this Bill was meant to promote? Not, certainly, that the whole of the Bible should be read in the schools, but that portions of it should be read. This, though nfii all lee could desire, was still an advantage gained, and he &Add not help wishing that not only Roman Catholics but. Protestants would dismiss from their minds the presumptuous notion that they could devise any thing better for the instruction of man kind than the Scriptures.—( Cheers.) Knowledge never could be the foe of true religion --a religion based, as the Protestant religion was, upon the Bible. The Protestant re ligion, then, had nothing whatever to fear except from that dull, stupid ignorance which knowledge alone could get rid of. He had hitherto argued the question on principles that were as applicable to the Church of England as to that of Ireland, but he could not help regretting that the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) opposite, who had displayed such eloquence and knowledge of the subject, had altogether forgotten to notice the real condition of Ireland, where there were one million of Protestants, and six millions of Roman Catholics. That disparity, in fact, formed the main feature of the case, because the peculiarity which it exhibited was that the estab lished religion went by the broad name of the national Church, while, in point of fact, the nation, he might almost say, were opposed to it, and considered the faith which it professed to be heretical.—(" Hear," from Mr: O'Connell and other Members on the Ministerial benches.) He 'must say, however, that the terms proposed by the Govern ment measure were as favourable as they ought to ex pect. No benefice was to be suppressed, and no spiritual in struction was to be wanting. The four principal provisions of the Bill went to give strength and stability to the Church ; and more than this ought not to be required. Many 0 ] the evils of Ireland had arisen from what was called in that country Protestant ascendancy ; but what was it that made a man a pod Protestant except his belonging to a political confederacy, plunging into dissipation and excess, and drinking, on his bended knees, " The pious and im mortal memory?" He had seen all this while he lived in Ireland, and he has present in Carlow when a Protestant procession paraded about, playing a tune called " Croppies lie down," a tune that was understood by the Roman Ca tholics to mean nothing more nor less than " We Protestants arc your masters, and rise if you dare, you blackguards."— ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Happy would it have been for Ireland if a Protestant of this kind bad never been found in that country. He would support this Bill because he ap proved of it, and because such a measure was necessary to put an end to the feelings that Protestant ascendancy had created amongst the Irish people.--( Loud cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE did not conceive that the Honourable Member who had addressed the House was justified by the course which he himself had pursued in the censures be had east on the Noble Lord who had commenced the debate. What had the Hon. Member done ? Ho had gone back to the history of former times—raked up the quarrels of ,by-gene days—and told of the injuries which the Protestants had in flicted upon the Catholics; but if he were disposed to refer to the sanguinary retaliations of the Roman Catholics—(Cries of disapprobation from the Ministerial side of the House)—he repeated, that if he were disposed to pursue such a course, end refer to similar occurrences upon tho other vide, it cer tainly might render the discussion spirited and interesting, but by the time that they reached the conclusion of a debate so conducted, lie did not think it probable that they would have far advanced in an amicable settlement of the question. The Hon. Member had said that the Protestant religion had been rejected in Ireland because it bad been presented in an offen sive form. But how did the Hon. Member propose to improve its advantages? Was it by stripping it of its revenues? Their great difference was as to the principle on which Church pro perty was founded, and also the principle on which that pro perty should be applied. There were many who felt that no portion of that property should be diverted from the strict uses of the Church. There were, however, many at that side of the House who thought that a system of national educa tion, founded upon Christian and scriptural principles, might derive support fi am a portion of those revenues. But even did the means of applying this support exist he denied that the national • system of education in Ireland was such a system as the Hon. Gentleman had described. What that system as it would be difficult to tell. It bid its head in darkness, and he might fairly presume that it did so because its deeds were not such as courted inspection. It had been reported by the Commissioners that a hundred and forty ap plications had been made to the Board by Protestant clergy men, one hundred and eighty by Presbyterian clergymen, and not less than seventy-eight applications from Roman C atholic clergymen had been complied with. Now, of 'the Roman Catholic schools receiving assistance from the Board, he understood that there were no less than forty-eight under the care of nunneries and other religious orders ; and was it not to b e supposed probable, and he spoke it not to their dis credit, that attempts would be made to conduct the education in those schools under the guidance of these religious bodies with a view to the advancement of their own particular opi nions ? It had been stated that a sum of money granted for a national school had been applied to the purpose of building a Roman Catholic chapel. He thought that the Hon. Mem ber had over-stated the case with respect to the circulation of the Scriptures amongst the children educated at those schools. They certainly proposed to circulate large extracts from the Scriptures in their books ; but it had been repeatedly alleged that these books were not read in the schools, but that one copy was kept there for the purpose of deluding the C o mmissioners. —(" No, no," from the Ministerial benches.) He was not alleging facts—(Cheers from the same quarter)---he was merely repeating allegations that had been repeatedly made, which curni,b :a ginuLds for inquiry, and an investiation into the truth or falsehood of which had hitherto been refused. (Hear, hear.) Even no less a person than the Prime Minister himself had declared that he would not ask another vote of money for these schools until the inquiry demanded should have taken place.—( Hear, hear.) Two propositions were ad vanced by the other side of the House—first, that the wants of the Church should be adequately supplied ; ar.d next, that the surulus should be appropriated to the religious education of the peore. The speech of the Noble Lord, the Member for Lan cashire, was so masterly, so unanswerable, and so conclusive on these points that they might go to a division without doing more than repeating a summary of the clear and irresistible statement that had been made by the Noble Lord.— ( Hear. ) A commission had been appointed by the Governmen.t to make inquiries into the state of the Church, and the result of their labours was in the possession of the House. He thought that it was most material for them to examine into the compa rative increase and decrease of the adherents of Protestantism in Ireland. He had entered into that examination ; and the result of his inquiry wag, that Protestantism, notwithstanding all the difficulties it had to contend with in that country, was rapidly advancing. He had made a comparison of the number of parishes in Ireland, in which, within a stated period, Pro • testantism had increased, and, of those in which it had dimi nished. In the dioceses of Ardfert and Tuam, in which the proportion of Catholics to Protestants was greatest, he found that the number of diminishing congregations were fourteen, whilst the number of increasing congregations was forty-one. —(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to read from a document be held in his hand a comparative statement of the number of parishes in each of the several dioceses in Ireland, in which the Protestant congregations increased as contrasted with those in which they bad diminished. The re sult of the statement was, that it appeared the number of parishes in which the Protestant congregations increased exceeded the others by a very large majority. After hearing this statement, a statement so specific and so conclusive as to the advance of Protestantism, were they prepared to deal with a surplus of the revenues of the Irish Church ? But, even so, where was the surplus 2—( Hear, hear, hear, and loud cheers.) They talked of supply the wants of the Protestant Church, of satisfying its wants ; but how could they be prepared to de - termine when the wants of the Protestant Church were satis fied?—(Cheers from the Ministerial benches.) He did not shrink from the assertion. Were the Perpetuity Purchase Fund Commissioners paid? Were the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners paid ? To talk of a surplus was al Bird. To legislate upon the presumption of a surplus, was to mortgage the reve nues of the Church to raise a sort of ready money for the pre sent advancement of political purposes.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman referred to the Report of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, and to the fact therein stated, and which seemed to have great weight with the Hon. Member for Berkshire— namely, that in Prussia the Ministers of the Roman Catholic and Protestant religions were paid out of the funds of the State, and lived together in the utmost peace and harmony. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded, at considerable length, to point out the distinctive circumstances in the history and con dition of the respective countries, and to show that no analogy whatsoever existed between the condition of both countries. He referred to some of the questions which had been for warded for answers to the Prussian Government, and, in re ply to the eleventh question, it was stated that proselytism, or inducing others to change their religious faith by force or persuasion, was especially prohibited, and punishable by the law of Prussia. Now, he contended that this was fatal to the freedom of discussion on religious subjects. Having disposed of the argument respecting Prussia, the Hon. Gen tlemen proceeded to apply himself to a proposition that had been made from the opposite side of the House, namely; that an ecclesiastical establishment did not exist for the propagation of the doctrines of a particular religion, but for the general in struction of the people. If that proposition was a true one, that an establishment did not exist for the propagation of par ticular doctrines, but for the instruction of the people—if that was the case, they had only to go the whole length at once, and divide the property by the rules of simple arithmetic. Now, if they believed what they said to be true, how did they act ? They gave 300,000/. per annum for the propagation of the doctrine, and 50,000/. for the instruction of the people. Thus, whilst they maintained that an establishment existed not for the propagation of its doctrines, but the education of the people, they gave 300,0001. for the propagation of the doctrine, and proposed to give 50,000/. for the education of the people. This was an answer to their own argument.. He did not think that this Bill was founded on any principle of distribution that could be maintained. After some further of eervations on this point, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by expressing a hope that this Bill would not pass. He believed it would not pass the Legislature.—(Cheers,from the Minis terial side of the House.) That belief was founded on a ma ture consideration of the principles on which it was framed.— (Cheers.) This was the great question which last year con stituted the strength of the Ministry, and was now the source of their weakness. He trusted, however that the majority of the House would accept the measure which had been pro pounded by the Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire—a measure which would effect every valuable object, which pre served fair proportion between duty and revenue, and which differed from the measure before the House in rejecting that principle, the only effect of which could be to open up a continued series of discussions and disputations between the clergy and the people of Ireland.—( Loud cheering.) Mr. POULT ER fully agreed with the Noble Lord (Stanley) that full provision should be made for the just wants of the Church Establishment in Ireland, but he still contended that there was a great excess of tithes in that country as con trasted with those wants. Seven eighths of the people in that country were Roman Catholics. He hoped the Church in England would never be placed in such a position as the Church in Ireland, for if it were he would act as be should on the present occasion. Col. CONOL LY could not accede to a proposition which was compelled to suppose an imaginary surplus for the purpose of impoverishing the Clergy of the Church of Irelar.d. The question of surplus was but used as an instrument to sustain a party in power, which party now found that, having used it for one purpose, it hung like a millstone round their necks with respect to all others.— Cheers.) ' His Majesty's Ministers had disturbed and hazarded the peace of the country by introducing this question of a surplus for party purposes, and on them laid all the r esponsibility of the consequences.—( Hear, hear.) The present Bill was more dangerous to the Establishment than that proposed last year, for it worked out its object more insidiously.—( Hear, hear. ) Mr. 11. GRATTAN said the Irish Members did not up hold the present Government from any party spirit, but be cause there was an evident disposition to do justice to Ire land, and if a dissolution took place to-morrow, ten additional Irish Members would be sent in to back the Ministry.—(Mi nisterial cheers.) The Hon. Member then referred to the writs of rebellion issued from the Court of Exchequer, and asked was this the way to conciliate Ireland with regard to the tithes ? He was himself a member of the Established Church, attached to it through principle ; but be felt that this was not the mode in which it should be upheld. This question must be settled. Did they think Ireland would stop whilst they de liberated? No; the question was already settled in Ireland. Whilst they were legislating, tithes were being extin guished. While the British people were legislating the Irish were deciding,. Tithes were already settled in Ire land. Formerly war was carried on against the peasantry ; it was now waged against the landlords. Gentlemen op posite never considered six millions of people ; their cry was for the Protestant Church.—[The Hon Member quoted some extracts from the published reports, to show the ex penses incurred by the recusants, and comparative numbers of Catholics and Protestants in several parishes.] Who cared in Ireland about the Protestant Church ?—( Cheers and laugh ter.) He meant, who cared about what Gentlemen opposite thought of it ?—( Laughter.) The English brought the Irish within their power by the Union ; but the Union was not to be preserved by fusty theology.—( Laughter.) The Irish met the doctrine by one immense shout of execration.—(Laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh.") At the next election there would be ten additional Members returned; the qualification of Members of Parliament should not be taken from the club houses.—( Laughter, and cries of " Oh, oh.") The few re maining sentences of the Hon. Member's speech were inau dible to us from the general buzzing through the House. Sir H. HA RDINGE heard much complaint of the en forcement of the law. But, unless the law were to be a deed letter arid a mockery, the sentence of a Court of Justice should he appealed to by the suffering clergy, and that sentence should be enforced. Resistance to the law he did not think the spon taneous act of the people, but was primarily excited by those who had political interests to advance by agitation and distur bance, anD y-etre--Gssttee)ee eters,,sy e eesseleeetssea_..k eese eteei ing or obedience to the law, or national ease and prosperity, so much as to their own aseendancy.—( Cheers.) lie did not mean to cast indiscriminate censure on all the Catholic clergy, but referred to those who urged on the people to resistance, and plunged the country in disorder, crime, wretchedness, and poverty.—(Cheers.) To show that the fair and peaceful ad justment of any one question was not the single and simple aim of these intriguing priests and rampant agitators ; he would instance the late agitation meetings got up on the sub ject of the Irish Municipal Bill. In all discussions at public meetings on that subject the Irish tithe question was mixed up with it, and insidiously made auxiliary to it, although the tithe question was not either the subject of debate or made properly any part of it. Was not this strong proof that when agitation served the purposes of party, grievances were thrown in, in the lump, to excite the public animosity ?—( Hear.) It was the utter extinction of tithes eventually that was asked for, under the semblance of appropriation. Was it not wicked and base to insult the Irish people with this delusion of ap propriation ?—( Hear, hear.) The application of the super abundant revenues of one parish to the wants of another would not satisfy the priests, who would say that any application of the revenues of the Church, for the Church was a grievance and an injury inflicted on the Catholics, whose hereditary revenues were aPpropriated to the uses of men whom they designated as heretics. If the Catholics refused to comply with the law, and pay those demands that were justly due from them, then the law must not be suffered to be beaten down by factious or insurrectionary violence, and these parties must take the consequences of their headstrong dis obedience or disaffection.—( Loud cheering.) The Noble (Lord J, Russell) who professed the Protestant religion, and avowed attachment to it, was inflicting the deepest injury upon it. By hi s suppression of d6O parishes he took away the light of true religion where it was most .wanted. The Noble Lord had that night stated that the use of an Establishment was not for th e diffusion of doctrines, but of education. But on a for mer occasion, when the question of the Church of Scotland was under the notice of the House, the Noble Lord declared that the use of an Established Church was for the propagation of reli g i on , th e best system of religion. What religion, then, as the best, would he propagate in Ireland ? Was it the Ca tholic ? lie hoped not ; for, according to the opinions of the Noble Lord himself, it was his duty to propagate, to encourage, and fost er t h e P rotes tant Church there ; for in what other Church could there be found so much of the genuine spirit of the Christian religion ?—( Cheers from the Opposition.) The Hon. Member concluded by supporting the amendment. Mr. VILLIERS STUART etticl ,a few words in oppo sition to it. Mr. BROTHE RTON then moved the aljcurnment of the OUR RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA. debate until to-morrow (this day.) The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Twelve o'Clock. (From the Manchester Guardian.) As we know that considerable uneasiness has recently pre vailed on the part of persons engaged in the Baltic trade, with respect to the state of our political relations with Russia, which it has been apprehended, were not at the present time by any means of the most cordial kind (if, indeed, there were no serious fear of an actual interruption of peace), we have great pleasure in publishing' the following letters, addressed on the sth and Bth ult., by the Earl of Durham, the British .Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, to Gisborne, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Consul at that capital, with a copy of which we have been favoured by a respectable mercantile house in this town:— SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• ASCOT HEATH MEETING-Y . R3TERD The list of yesterday's races, however interesting to sport ing men, contained little to attract the public generally, and as the custom observed by their Majesties held out no hopes of a royal visit, the attendance was much thinner than on. Tuesday. The titled and fashionable personages present in cluded the Duke of Rutland, Duke of Grafton, Duke and Duchess of 'Beaufort, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Marquis of Granby, Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Marquis of Downshire, Earl and Countess of - Chesterfield, Earl Jersey, Earl Stradbroke, Earl of Albemar:e; Earl of Errol, Lord Macdonald, Lord Gardiner, Lord Suffield, Lord Villiers, Lord and Lady F. Fitzelarencc, Lord A. Conyng ham, Sir G. Heathcote, Sir L. Glyn, Sir H. Peyton, Sir J. Cope, Sir J. Shelley, Sir F. Cope, H0r...-Georcr ' e Byng, Hon. Colonel Anson, Hon. A.VillierColonel Peel, Colonel Millman, Colonel Lyster, Colonel Bouverie, Captain Marten, Captain Fairlie, Captain Gar dnor, Ca p tain Hunter, Hon. C. Law, and Messrs. Greville, Payne, S. Stanley, Irby, Cosby, Hawker, De Burgh, Shakerley, R. Palmer, M. P., Walters, M. P., F. Charlton, Worrall, Crommelin, Poyntz, &c. The following is a return of yesterday's sport : Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, h. ft., for three yrs old that never won ; colts, Bst. 71b. ; fillies, Bst. 41b. Old Mile. 4 Subs. Lord Egresnont's br. f. Helga Lord Tavistock's f. sister to Oak Apple 3 Bettin,g-7 to 4on Helga, who made all the running, and won easy by two length. The Swinley Stakes of 25 sore. each ; three yrs old, 7.st. 41b. ; four, Bst. 101 b. ; fillies allowed 31b. The last mile and a half. 4 Subs. Lord Exeter's Aurelius, 4 yrs Conelly 1 D. of Rutland's Florestan (Darioletta, colt), 4 yrs 2 Captain Williamson's ch. c. Ainderby, 4 yrs 3 Sir G. Heathcotc's ch. c. Valentissimo, 4 yrs Bettin g -10 to 6 agst Aurelius, 3to 1 agst Valentissimo , aryl 4 to 1 agst Ainderby. Aurelius made all the running, and won in a canter by three lengths. A Plate of 501. for all ages ; three yrs, ist. 41b. ; four, Bst. 10%; fillies allowed 31b. Winners in 1836 to carry 31b. extra. Mile and a half. To start at the Swinley Post. Lord Egremont's f. Helga, 3 yrs (post entered)...Nat 1 Mr. Forth's Knobstick, 4 yrs (post entere d ) 2 " St. Petersburg, May 5. " Sir—l am not surprised to bear from you that the late proceedings in Parliament have attracted the serious notice of the British merchants resident here. " The importance of their interests, and of the trade with which they are connected, naturally demands their anxious care. As the representative of his Britannic Majesty at this Court, it is my duty also to pay the most unremitting attention to all events which could justify those apprehensions, which it seems are entertained in some quarters. lam not, however, conscious of the existence of any rational cause for them. " No one event has occurred since my arrival here which could indicate the remotest chance of a rupture between the two countries. The most amicable communications have ever taken place between Lis Imperial Majesty's Government and myself. Every representation on behalf of British subjects has been promptly attended to; inquiry ordered where inves tigation was necessary; and ample redress promised when proved to be justly due. As to the political aspect of affairs generally, I may refer' you to facts, which, after all, far out weigh declarations and opinions, from governments or indi viduals. The late convention with the Porte, and the evacution of Silistria, are most important events, and convinc ing indications of the intention of the Russian Government to join spontaneously and cordially with us in the maintenance of the general peace of' Europe. It is my firm conviction that this desirable object will now be effectually secured; and I can have, therefore, no hesitation in assuring the gentlemen who have addressel you, that they may, without fear of in terruption, apply themselves to the cultivation of that com merce which is the natural bond of union between England and Russia; and of which the encouragement and extension must be the anxious desire of the Governments of both coun ' tries.—l remain, with great retard, &c. (Signed) " DURHAM. " To Gisborne, Esq., Li. B. M. Consul." " St. Petersburgh, May 8, 1836. Mr. Kingston's Oberon, 8 yrs 3 Captain Gardnor's Skirmisher, 3 yrs 4 Betting-11 to 8 on Knobstick, and 3 to I agst Helga. Oberon took the lead at a miserable pace, and maintained it to the brick kilns, where Skirmisher went up and forced the speed, and laid in front fora few strides ; Knobstick then took up the running by Helga waiting on him till half-way up the distance, where she challenged, and after a severe contest, defeated him by a neck. It is rather singular that both first and second should be post-entered. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yrs old fillies. Old Mile. 7 Subs. Colonel Peel's Arsenic, Bst. 41b , Pavis 1 Lord Exeter's b. f. Toga, Bst. 71b Betting-6 and 7 to 4 on Arsenic. Toga made running to the distance where Arsenic went by her, and won in a canter. At the commencement of the betting it was 6 to 4 on Toga. BETTING ON THE cur, r.r. (THIS DAY). 6 to 4 agst Mr. Theobald's Rockingham (Macdonald rider) 6 to 4 agst Lord Westminster's Touchstone (J. Day) 6 to 1 agst Mr. Robertson's Lucifer (Robinson) t to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Aurelius (Conelly) It is not definitively settled whether Robinson will ride Rocking ham or Lucifer. The following are the Races appointed for this day : The Gold Cup.—The following are expected to run :—Lord Westminster's Touchstone, Mr. 'Theobald's Rockingham, Lord Exeter's Aurelius, Mr. Robertson's Lucifer, and Sir G. Heath cote's Valentissimo. (Mr. Cookes's Sheet Anchor is declared not " Stn—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of rect. nesting you to inform the gentlemen composing the body.of British mer chants resident here, that his Imperial Majesty has been pleased more than once to express to me his high approbation of their conduct on all occasions and in all circumstances. You may easily imagine that this notice of my countrymen was as gra tifying to me as it is honourable to them; and that I am there fore anxious to communicate to them this proof that their pro ceedings arc justly appreciated and rzraciously recognized. " I am, &e. (Signed) " DURHAM. " To Gisborne, Esq., H.B.M. Consul." The following, of the 11th inst., from St. Petersburgh, is from the Augsburg Gazette;—" Notwithstanding the confi dence with which certain foreign journals announce an ap proaching rupture between Russia and England, and the viru lent declaration of certain Members of the British Parliament against Russia, we still maintain a hope that peace will not be broken, at least by us. What have we gained by the enor mous sacrifices of men and money we made in the two cam pains against Turkey ? Does the magnanimous conduct of our Emperor betray projects of unbounded ambition and con quest? At the same time our Government, though anxious to render peace durable, has not remaimed idle, and has been preparing to meet with energy and effect any struggle that may arise, in like manner as England has lately augmented the number of her ships and her men. Our navy, and particu larly our fleet in the Black Sea, is in a state to command re spect, and our ports in the Eastern and Black Seas are in a very good state of defence—our dockyards have been in full activity—our sailors are no longer the ignorant men they were in times past ; and improvements have been made within the last five years which, if continued for a few years more, will enable our navy and marines to compete in every point with those of Great Britain." to run. ) The Royal Stakes of 100 each.—Of the six horses engaged only Lord Exeter's Toga and Lord Tavistock's f. by Royal Oak, out of Mona, are here. The Windsor Forest Stakes of 50 each. &c.—Mr. Theobald's Ticket, Mr. Phillimore's Lady Anna, and Mr. Greville's Marma► lade, are here for it. The Fern Hill Dinner Stakes of 200 each, h. ft. (8 subs. ) Duke of Beaufort's Esmeralda, Colonel Peel's Zenana, and the Duke of Richmond's Havildar, are expected to run. Sweepstakes of 100 each.—Mr. W. Edwards's Royal George will walk over. Sweepstakes of 30. sovs. each, for two yrs dd.—Tile following are expected to start :—Captain Williamson's Arrow (31b. extra), Mr. Sadler's The Hermit, Sir G. lleathcote's Com. filly, Lord Exeter's Candia. and Mr. Gardnor's Phantasma colt. Match, 100, h. ft. T. Y. C.—Lord Cony-gham's Heiress, 3 yrs, Bst. 121 b., agst Captain Gardnor's Magic, 2 yrs, 6st. 121 b. FATFIELD HUNT MEETING, lifAr 26. A Silver Cup, value 00/., for horses not thoroughbred, that have been regularly hunted the last season. Three miles, 12st. each. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Smith's The Camel Mr. Dunlop 1 Mr. Maddison's Freeholder .. A Silver Snuff Box, value 10/., given by the Subscribers to the Chester-le-Street Ball, for horses qualified as in the above race. Heats, two miles. Gentlemen riders Mr. Smith's The Camel Mr. Gibbon 3 1 1 Mr. Wight's Fair Helen Mr. Maddison's Freeholder 2 3 dr A Silver Mounted Racing Whip, value 101., for ponies not exceed ing 14 hands high. One mile heats. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Gibbon's-Brusher... Droner 1 1 Mr. Kirby's Leonard Mr. Smith's Leptile . . 3 dr THAMES ROYAL YACHT CLUB. The Alert has been backed by her owner, Mr. Lyons, to sail from Greenwich to Gravesend and back against the Prin cess Victoria. The Alert, by every person possessing a sound judgment in these matters, must be considered a very good craft ; and for the other she certainly is the greatest apology for any thing pretty that has been laid down for some time. The warp, which we stated she picked up in her way to Green wich on the day of the match, has been taken from between her stern and rudder. It must have been evident to her crew when she started that with such an " accompaniment" as that she could not win in any breeze. The classification of boats will be brought under the consideration of the members of the club on their next monthly meeting. What possible chance could a thirteen-ton boat, like the Lady Louisa, or a sixteen, like the Alert, have with the Princess Victoria, rated as she is at twenty-five, or with the Telemachus, if the latter could be called a yacht fit for a match ? THE ROWING MATCH TO_ GRAVESEND AND BACR.—The gentleman who has hacked himself in the arduous undertaking of rowing from London -bridge to Gravesend and back in eight hours has forfeited his first-named day (Tuesday). He gave notice, according to the conditions of his wager, at twelve on the previous day, but the wind was too fresh from the cast, and he declined the start. He has the whole of this month at his disposal, but he must row one within the two next days he may think fit to appoint. It is possible that he may venture below the beginning of the next week, but little short of a dead calm will suit him, and that is more likely to be obtained as the month advances. He has innumerable obstacles to con tend independent against, of doing 68 miles in eight hours. The craft in.the pool, the wash of the steamers, &c., must im pede him. Time is considerably the favourite, arid some of the three to one's are going begging ; still there arc many thousands on it. Mr. Robinson's prowtss as a sculler has long been established. Ile rowed to Erith and back last season in little more than six hours, but this undertaking is evidently too much of a good thing. We have seen him practising within these two days, and he appears in very good condition, but if he contemplates rowing in the boat in which he is practising it does not appear the best sort in the world for below-bridge work. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A small melancholy-looking barber, carrying on the mystery of chin-scraping in Duncan's-passage, under the uncommon name of Scatterjowl, entered the Office, bearing in his hand a show-block with the remains of a curly Wig upon it, and presenting himself before Mr. CONANT, proceeded, after care fully placing his singular burden on the table, to detail his cause of grievance against a journeyman butcher, who was, stationed at the bar. The complainant, whose feelings were evidently of the most dismal d er i ate d_st— , ---khe wig which_then_ looked justice in the face nad, or a length - TrTrrrre - rformed the pride and ornament of his shop window. Ile had a set of regular customers, who, not having the fear of Sir An drew Agnew before their eyes, came every Sunday morn '.ing to his shop to receive his professional assistance. Some of these customers being waggishly disposed, were greatly wanting in the reverence due to him and to his honour able calling, and were perpetually having what they called " larks" with him and his property. On Sunday, after the labour of the brush was ended, he was about to shut up his s hop, when, glancing at the window, he missed his favourite w • Astounded at the circumstance, lie ran iato a neighbour ing public-house, and on mentioning his loss in the tap-room, he soon learned sufficient to convinced him that the butchrr, whose nose lie had professionally squeezed that morning, could give a clear account of the abstraction of the hairy absentee. The next morning, while pondering on the steps proper to be taks-n, the wig, shorn of its glories, was thrown into his shop. It had evidently been subjected to a " fiery ordeal," and bad not stood this once popular test ; for one side was completely singed away, and the portion which was left had frizzled into a hue somewhat between a brickbat and'a carrot. " Look, your worship," said the unlucky barber, handing round the block for the inspection of the Bench, " it would ruin any artist to put such a job of work in his window. I'll defy the best wig-maker in the world, let him try all be knows, to put the article in a fit state for the head of a gentleman." Mr. CONANT—What have you to say, prisoner, for destroy ing the man's property ? Defendant--‘Twarn't me as boned the vig. I know as it was taken ony for a lark, and it's wen , true I made one to have 4 shy at it ; but as to who chucked the beer end sand over it, I ar'nt able to say. Complainant—liah, it's the third time you've played tricks with my wigs. Your Worship, I nearly lost one of my old est customers through one of his tricks, for I'd just done dress ing the gentleman's Sunday wig when he managed to melt a ball of Burgundy pitch into the crown of it, and the gentleman never found it out till it stuck so tight, he was obliged to have it scalded off. Mr. CoNANT—WeII, go out and talk over the matter. The parties retired, and after some parley:, th° b arber agreed to take a crown as a satisfaction for the injury done to his much lamented wig. Maurice OConnell, Es q P•, has been obliged • to pair off for tae remainder of the session, owing to ill health. His native air is de&ned imperatively necessary to his rest°. ration. Nothin of public importance took place yest Nothing at any of the Law Courts. GERMAN PAPERS. HANOVEri, MAY, 20. —The Lllowing are the most essential points of the new law, relative to the appanages of the Royal family : The King has for his family and Court according to the Constitution, besides a capital of 600,0001. sterling, the do tation of the Crown to the amount of 600,00(1 rix dollars. The Queen Dowager is to receive, according to this law, on the appanages, besides a residence suitable to her rank, 40,000 rix dollars in gold annually, and a sum of 10,000 rix dollars in gold as outfit. The Crown Prince receives, from the time he becomes of age, 30,000 dollars in gold annually, a residence suitable to his rank, and when he marries for the first time, an additional annual income of 10,000 rix dollars in gold. A Dowager Crown Princess receives a fixture of 20,000 rix dol lars in gold annually, besides a residence fitted up and fur nished in a manner suitable to her rank. The Princes, sons of the King, receive 24,000 rix dollars in gold per annum, and on their marriage, an addition of 6,000 rix dollars in gold per annum. The Princesses, daughters of the King, receive on coming of age, 6,000 nix dollars in gold annually, which on their father's death is increased to 9.000 rix dollars in gold. On their marriage they receive a portion of 50,000 rix dollars in gold. The sons of the Crown Prince receives from their coming of age, each an income of 20,000 rix dollars in gold. The daugh ters of the Crown Prince from their coming of age 4,000 rix dol lars in gold per annum, which if their father dies while Crown Prince is increased to 6,000 rix dollars in gold. On their marriage they receive 40,000 rix dollars in gold, as a portion, and the other grand daughters of the King '20,000 rix dollars on their marriage. The appanages of the Princes descend in the male line, each alone, in the male line of the first posses , sor of .the appanage. Should an appanage in the course of descent fall below the amount of 3.000 rix dollars gold, it shall be made up to that sum out of the Public Treasury. On the death of the last male descendant of the first holder of the ap panage, it returns to the State. The annuities of all the Princesses fall to the Public Treasury on their marriage or death. FRANKFORT, MAY 27.—Exchange on London, 1511; two months, 1501 —Frankfort Paper. May 28. BELGIAN FUNDS, .131:17SSF.LS, May 30. Actual Debt, 2li per Cent. vi Rothschild': Loan, 5 per Cent. Loan of City, 15.12.4 per Cent. 99 Society of Commerce, per Cent. ll5 Bank of Tielgium, par Cent l2l —Brussels Papers, May 31. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Marquis of Lon— donderry with his company at dinner on Tuesday evening, in Park-lane. His Royal Highness visited the Princess Au gusta yesterday, and in the afternoon went to his residence at 'Kew. The Reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Here ditary Prince, and Prince Albert, attended by Baron d'Alvens leben and Count Colowrat, left Kensington Palace yesterday at an early hour for Claremont, where their Serene High nesses passed some time, and returned to Kensington Palace to dinner. The Princess Augusta is recovering from her recent indis position. Her Royal Highness received visit‘ yesterday from the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the Duchess of Gloucester. The Prussian, Swedish, Portuguese, and Bavarian Ministers transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Lord Glenelg visited Viscount Melbourne yesterday in South-street. The ex-Duke of Brunswick called yesterday at the resi dences of some of the Cabinet Ministers. Despatches for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office. A deputation of the Dutch Londrn Church, Austinfriars, ded by the Rev. - H. Gehle, waited - upon the i'rinco of range on Monday, or mi...-..0,-44,4e1---.llo.__Netherlands Minister, Chevalier Uccle!, introduced the deputation to his Royal Highness, who answered the customary address with his usual kindness and affability. It was generally rumoured in the City yesterday, that Lord Sligo, the governor of Jamaica, had resigned, and that his resignation has been accepted. —Morning Paper.— Lilis announcement we believe is correct.] His Highness the Fr:nce de Capua and his consort are making their final arrangements for leaving England. They are expected to leave Mivart's Hotel is a few days for Rome, where it is understood t he y will remain until ads ices reach them from his Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies. The Prince and his Majesty arc said to be warmly attached to each other. There is only the difference of eighteen months between their.respective ages. The Prince ha; ordered two eloga:,t carriages from Pearce's. We regret to announce that the Bishop of London has had a serious relarse, and has been interdicted by his phy sicians from attending to business of any kind for a considera ble time. This day is the anniversary of two memorable events; the passing of the Bill of Rights in 1628, and the Riots of London in 1780. Fine green peas , strawberr i es, and cnerries, were offered f or sale in o ur market on Friday.— firesten Luminary. The venerable Dean of Winchester, Dr. Retinal, preached an a ppropriate funeral sermon upon the death of the Duchess of Buckingham in the Cathedral, on Whit Sunday. E XTR AORDINARY ELOPEMENT.—An elopement, which has caused a great deal of interest in the neighbourhood of Lambeth, and which by the parties concerned has been &favoured to be kept from the public eye, took place at an e arly hour on Wednesday merning last. The elopi ng party is Miss NVatchorn, the daughter of the proprietor of the Dover Castle gin-palace, Marsh-gate. It appears that about db tw 0 00 c : the morning in question the cellar doo-oh constable Newman, of the L division,ltO•asbe observed, a ' ll ,3lT as "he considered that the premises had been broken open, and by; t ieves, he alarmed the inmates o f the house, and, with Mr. NS' atchorn, went over the premises, but no strange person could be found, and it was then inferred that the vaults had negligently been left open by one of the barmen. Miss Watehorn not making her appearance at the breakfa,:t-table, one of the family went to her bed-room to ascertain the cause, when it was found that she bad eloped, and, up to yesterday, had not returned. Ti.e young lady is pretty, nearly twenty years of age, and the com panion of her flight is supposed to be a military officer. ' bje 3 03 'or' tea